Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
The Great City Literally Painted Red in
Honor of the Jubilee.
THE SERVICES FOR TO. DAY
Protestants and Catholics to Cele.
bratc the Event tSeparately-Pre-
cautions Taken Against Out.
rages-Thanksgivin
The Jubilee,


fares, In the hands of immense masses of
sightseers, who Obstructed everywhere
vehicular traffic and the sidewalks. BY day
light everywhere was to be seen to-day red
cloth, principally from windows off the line
Of the procession. and on the balconies and
platforms along which 1t is to pass. Nearly
all the myriad illuminations have been this
evening rehearsed. London at 10 p. III,
looked, from Primrose hill, St Johns wood.
As II between Victoria tower, parliament
houses and st. Paul dome immense fires
were consuming the shops and the mansions.
These illuininations are, In many instances.
costly and elaborate, but to be frank, are
conventional and commonplace. The cleo
trio light is not used. Hundreds of buildings
the faded candle and oil lamps
glOries In c0l0rs clusters and alphabetical
arrangements, which belonged to the old
CremOrne gardens and the Vaux hall and
NiblO's gardens in your city at the time Vic
toria was crowned. American inventions
and originality of design are largely lacking
IN the London illuminatiOns. Tho notices
are trite. Flags are displayed and grouped
without taste.
LONDONERs VERY UNEASY.
That which ought to strike many foreign
visitors who walk the professional thorough
fare Is an appearance of London being in
state of seige, that Londoners are being pro-
tected against themselves and disoyalty,
against the possibilities of fel0nized Watt
Tylers and Jack Cades. Along Piccadilly,
St James, Waterloo Place, etc, and even in
the adjacent side streets, extra shutters, new
fastenings and boarding-or, as called here,
heardngs-have been extensively erected.
The shOpkeepers have not forgotten the
Sunday and Saturday orgies on the days last
year when lo0ting was coincldent with, al
perhaps not the result OF, realistic professions.
Your reporters have found great symptoms
OF uneasiness among the people about the
coming events OF jubilee day.
A GREAT JAM EXPECTED.
At least 3,OOO,0O0 people will endeavor to
squeeze themselves into areas calculated to
comfortably furnish standing or spectators
room for less than 1,OOO,OOO The balconies
meant for families will be used by packed
sightseers. At least $500, 600 have been paid
for seats on improvsed stands and amphi-
theaters hastily built of green wood.
sECTARIAN SENSATION.
Some sensation was created at the ABBEY
to-day by the return of tickets by all the
Catholic peers, cOmmoners and many guests
OF that faith. Several Irish guests have
Joined the Parnellites in also withdrawing.
THE CATHOLIC SERVICES.
About half of these absentees will be at
musical high mass at the cathedral at Ken
singtOn at 10 a. IN. A covered canopy has
been erected from High street to the front
entrance, about fifty yards. found
the gorgeous sanctuary had been
fitted with two thrones, the right one
70 be occupied by Monsgnor
Ruffs Scilla, envoy extraordinary from the
pope to the queen, and the left one by Car
dinal Manning, who, surrounded by his can
Ons and mOnsignors train, will be carried by
the eight-year-old Lord Ohtagan, son of the
late Irish lord chancellor. On the altar will
be the Lord Bishop OF Northampton, assisted
by Rev. Lord Charles Thyme and the Lord
Bishop OF Amycla, assisted by Rev. M. Fan
ning Among the congregation will be
representatives of the principal Catholic
families of England, headed by the Duke of
Norfolk, Marquis Butte, Earl of Denbigh,
Lords North and Howard, ETC., etc. After
mass will be given an exposition of the
blessed sacrament, at which "Ie Deum" will
be sung. At the end of the service "God
Save the Queen" will be given on the organ,
the whole congregation standing and while
leaving "Cornation" march will be PLAYED.
Rev. G. Coe, Of the cathedral, informed your
reporter that the whole service had been sub
mitted to her majesty, who approved. He
added: "She expressed herself pleased to
see her Catholic subjects coincdontly cele.
brating the jubilee and thanksgiving at the
same hour as the Protestant services, con
Quoted In Westminster abbey"
HOW WESTMINSTER ABBEY WILL. LOOK.
American tourists familiar with the latter,
or all having pictures of Its interior, can
readily fancy how 1t will look tomorrow by
mentally placing the royal dais in the center
nave. between the poets corner and Oppo-
site the entrance, while against the
sides of all the naves will be rising
galleries, built from the floor, covered
with red cloth, with seats twenty inches
wide. From these q few only can see we'll
but all can hear, provided there is no sufroca-
tion. To American visitors at the abbey in
past 1t would be absolutely unacceptable.
1t looks as If the queen were going to lay the
foundation stone rather than take part in the
solemn ceremonies within sthe walls. They
have looked down upon historic scenes some
six hundred years. For all that the
abbey will have to do with the ceremonial
the lqueen tmight as we'll have had 1t
performed in the main building OF the
American exhibition, and really spectators
outside the abbey will to-day more graciOusly
illustrate the victorious era than those with
in II.
DIsPARAeINa COMMENTS.
One who Is an aristocratic tory, but an
enemy to funkyism, told me thus: "lmaginc
to-morrow's scene as II viii! have to be handed
down to posterity. The abbey itself trans
formed portrays nobodies. Really great men
will be conspicuous by their absence. Court
flunkys Of the major and minor sort of obscure
members Of parliament. their still more oh
scure wives, parliamentary clerks-these are
the persOnages who will figure as representa-
tives of all that is characteristic Of the Brit.
ish nation In the jubilee year of Queen Vic
toria"
A radical member of parliament is respon-
sible for this comment: probably the mos 1
painful fact in connection with the jub lee
fete Is the bitter cry which arises FROM num-
bers of industrious workingmen who are
striving hard to make two ends meet aud
fnd themselves compelled to lose three OF
four days work with its concomitant
pay. A poor remembrance of the jubilee
II 1t consists In less food and increased
worry. Even q brilliant state pageant will
not compensate for this"
A gorgeous, poetic aud realistic preacher